madrassa

variants or madrasa also madrassah or madrasah
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Recent Examples of madrassa Late last year, Parliament passed a new set of laws seeking to improve the quality of madrassa education, both to uplift student outcomes and to help madrassas shed their tag as terrorist hotbeds. — Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2025 And all of these places essentially are madrassas, or Islamic seminaries. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 May 2025 On Sunday, Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani offered a more moderate statement at a madrassa in Kabul, urging Taliban leaders to avoid imposing their will on the Afghan people. — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024 Local militant groups like ABT recruit from among madrasah students and teachers, while one of the first deadly attacks on a blogger, back in 2013, was carried out by students at North South University, a prestigious Dhaka educational institution. — Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2017 See All Example Sentences for madrassa
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Noun
  • There's also demand for surveillance cameras after the governor says security footage from a Brooklyn yeshiva was able to help police find the person who sprayed swastikas on its building in November 2025.
    — Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • On the night before the battle, Katz gathered fellow soldiers around him and taught them Maimonides’ laws governing the conduct of Jewish soldiers in battle, the yeshiva said on its website.
    — Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Carrie asked that kindergarten morning through tears that made her eyes shine rather than redden.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Sierra and Rocky had known each other since kindergarten, when their classmate Jane Rustin had taken them aside after a reading of Ann Can Fly to observe that Rocky crossed his legs like a girl and Sierra crossed her legs like a boy.
    — Tom Drury, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Madrassa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madrassa. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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